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Pubs have been forced to throw away up to 87 million pints of beer in the UK since the start of the pandemic, an industry body has claimed.
PA Media reports:
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) said the waste was the equivalent of 331 million in sales, based on the average cost of a pint at 3.81.
Emma McClarkin, the association’s chief executive, warned there would be a “wave of closures” and job losses in the sector unless the government provides further financial support.
Large numbers of contact tracers have been fired without warning by Test and Trace, after a manager claimed they were told to “reduce the number of staff as the number of cases reduces”.
Sky News reports:
The contact tracers were dismissed on Wednesday with one week’s notice by Sitel, the Dutch outsourcing giant which runs a large part of Test and Trace’s call centre operation.
It is not known how many contact tracers were dismissed, but staff working for Sitel reported that whole teams of around 20 have been dismissed, while other teams have been cut in half.
